A COVID-19 outbreak at the Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake has now been declared over by Interior Health.

The outbreak was first declared on Jan. 13 and grew to 14 total cases, including 12 staff and two patients.

In a statement, the health authority’s CEO Susan Brown thanks staff and physicians for their work to help end the outbreak while continuing to care for patients.

“Together, the Cariboo Memorial Hospital team worked to ensure the least possible disruption to patient care, keeping services available who needed them,” Brown says.

By comparison, that outbreak pales in size to the outbreak currently ongoing at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, which has seen 105 total cases including 69 staff and 35 patients, while one patient has died.

As of Tuesday, there had been just one new case at RIH in the past seven days and no new cases reported in the past four days.